RogueAcademic

@gwaShuuya_4th Supply and demand I understand, our problem is the social and economic engineers who are ever adding layers of requirements to obtaining a house.

@KaseraBM One can’t dare question demand and supply.

Tbf the financing model doesn’t make any sense, but hey it’s capitalism right?!

@MwahafarN The middle income class has vanished. We’re now an economy that caters for an upper-middle income class.

The economy is setup in such a way that middle class citizens are now forced to raise families in flat complexes with no backyard.

Housing financing is more than the mortgage. E.g., an average 2-million-dollar house in Windhoek: Bond - $22000 Utilities - $2000-$3000 Elect. - $1500 Life over - $3000+ Short-term Insurance - $800-1500 Approximately 30K per month just on expenses related to the house.

@ywer_428 The moral implication runs deeper; this behaviour signifies a profound betrayal.

Morning Doc. Sowell argues that bureaucratic incompetence is an inevitable consequence of distributed power and lack of accountability.He posits that systemic failures are frequently caused by officials acting without/skin in the game/ meaning that they do anything.

The revolutionaries who promised you land and housing made it into the local and central government. They are receiving benefits, driving big cars, rubbing shoulders with the political elite and have just approved 4 more new informal settlements for you.

@TheNamibian But Nkurenkuru (voting cows’ town) is given 500K for development.

@therealdotun1 I'm sure she took out a large insurance policy on this man… this is slow murder.

His wife is the weap0n fashioned against him.

@TheNamibian Locationism isn’t a development policy. Your geographical promixity doesn't translate into skills, ability that the business owners require. Just how entitled are you people?

GOREANGAB PEOPLE FIRST … A Samora Machel constituency resident says Goreangab Mall should prioritise people from Goreangab and surrounding areas instead of "coming with their own people" from outside. She says residents in the area have families to feed. “We also need jobs and opportunities,“ she states. Video: Wilma Iita

@XEmaadX India has no sense of work safety.

في الهند 🇮🇳 عامل بناء يترك بيته ليكسب قوت عياله.. فيُسحق تحت ألواح رخام ضخمة في كويمباتور بالهند ويتوفى رغم محاولات الإنقاذ اليائسة.. لم يُنقذ. خلف كل عامل عائلة تنتظره بفارغ الصبر.. السلامة في العمل ليست خياراً!

@ObserverNamibia Next is MTC to explain their data and airtime disappearances.

Telecom Namibia says it will comply fully with a summons from the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (Cran). This follows repeated nationwide broadband disruptions that have affected businesses, institutions and households. observer24.com.na/telecom-on-thi…

@NBCDigitalNews I pity them for what is coming their way.

Omusati police have so far arrested only two of the six trial-awaiting inmates who escaped from lawful custody at the Okalongo Police holding cells on Sunday, 24 May. The two arrested are Awala Johannes, who was arrested in Omungwelume today, and Immanuel Eliaser, an Angolan national who was arrested yesterday. It is alleged that the six inmates overpowered two male police officers while food and medication were being issued to inmates by removing the cell keys from one of the officers and handcuffing them. The suspects then locked the two officers inside the cells and waited for the charge office door leading to the cells to be opened by the shift commander. The shift commander reportedly became suspicious after the two officers took a long time to return to the charge office and went to check on them. She was allegedly ambushed by the suspects, who forced her and other officers into a corner inside the charge office while demanding cellphones and firearms. The suspects allegedly assaulted the police officers, took the strongroom keys and pointed a pistol at one of the four female police officers in the charge office while demanding a vehicle key. They then allegedly opened the strongroom, removed firearms, and fled the premises. The suspects reportedly escaped with one AK-47 assault rifle, four pistols, one cellphone belonging to the charge office, and four cellphones belonging to the victimised police officers. The four suspects still at large are: Nestor Shitaleni Kornelius, a Namibian national; Nicodemus Junias, a Namibian national; Amukwaya Mateus, a Namibian national; Festus Paulus, a Namibian. The suspects were in custody as trial-awaiting inmates on charges including rape, robbery with aggravating circumstances, housebreaking with intent to commit grievous bodily harm, assault through threatening, read with the Domestic Violence Act, possession of arms and ammunition, and escape from lawful custody. Omusati Police Commander Commissioner Ismael Basson warned that his teams are on the ground, ready to hunt them down and re-arrest them all. Tonateni Haimbodi #NBCNews #nbcdigitalnews #nbcDSTV282 #nbcGOtv20 #nbcplusapp

@TheNamibian Interpretivism, pushed to its logical conclusion, conflates the ideal with reality.

OPINION | Namibia’s arrest and bail system is broken. Arrests should never be used as anticipatory punishment, especially for non-violent crimes like bigamy. Lawyer Sisa Namandje argues it’s time to modernise policing and protect personal liberty. namibian.com.na/the-unnecessar…

@taye264 I somehow understand the logic of FIMA. Especially since many people retire into poverty, perhaps we need a guardian. However, this will only work if such a guardian is trustworthy. Sadly, at present, public trust in government is in the gutters.

Namibia has the best and most robust pension fund systems in Africa, ranked as the top country in Africa for pension fund assets per capita. I don't know they still want to push FIMA, which will lock 75% of our pension until we turn 55.

@fireshikomba The fact that the administration can boldly say we have 60% stock levels when hospitals and clinics are out of common flu and hypertension meds is worrisome.

@KaseraBM The ministry of health is in desperate need of quality leadership.

Given the acute shortage of essential medicines in public hospitals, our government needs to rethink its future approach to this crisis. We need long-term solutions. I suggest investing in local pharmaceutical companies to produce drugs: FabuPharm is a good place to start.

@Batchotep Why Cuba when South Africa and Egypt can provide us with the needed expertise? A state-owneded plant, in my view, will be short-lived.

@KaseraBM A government owned pharmaceutical plant is the only long-term solution. Cuba will provide the expertise.

@ngurare They still teach these empty principles in political theory. The West is like a bipolar abuser who doesn't see what’s wrong with him.

When we were university students, Professors in Western universities taught us that the following constitute key overarching principles of international law: 1. Sovereign equality of states 2. Non-intervention / non-use of force as per Charter of the United Nations 3. Good faith, pacta sunt servanda (agreements must be kept) 4. Peaceful settlement of disputes Unfortunately this appears to be no longer the case!

This is not even enough to pay a suspended CEO of a corrupt parastatal. What a joke

@TheNamibian 500 what? For a town of 15K people. How is the entertainment budget of the President and her Vice, and the Prime Minister and his Vice?